Inter-Gang Relationships: The Untold Story

Posted April 11, 2008, 11:07 a.m.

Tony from West Side Story threatened to kill girlfriend Maria during an argument over whether their 19-month-old child would grow up to join the Anglo Jets or the Puerto Rican Sharks. . . .

Ludicrous? Yes. But, sadly, plausible in gangland-America.

According to The Denver Channel, a couple arguing over what gang their 19-month-old would join caused a public disturbance and the father was arrested. The mother is a member of the Crips, the father a member of the Westside Ballers. Clearly, this child is on the road to success like his parents before him.

I see a West Side Story sequel in the making.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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By attempting to measure the unmeasurable, measurement becomes a form of pseudo-objectivity. Instead of bringing the researcher closer to his research object, the measurement procedure leads him further away.

A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. . . .

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

But let us never forget . . . beyond Europe’s borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

When the law contradicts what most people regard as moral and proper, they will break the law. . . .

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Since at least the mid second century until the present time, Christians have made predictions regarding Jesus’s second coming and the end of the world. The one thing they all have in common is they are all incorrect. . . .

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

As a general rule, the higher the culture, the simpler the style and the plainer the speech.

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